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Dramatized by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston from Bram Stoker's novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Kinky Count | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

...under the Sabotage and Suppression of Communism Acts, which define any attempt to change the status quo as "communist." Under such laws, the African National Congress of South Africa--the party of national liberation--was outlawed in 1960, and many opposition leaders--among them Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and Bram Fischer--sent to jail for life...

Author: By Neva L. Seidman, | Title: Harvard's Share in Apartheid | 9/27/1977 | See Source »

...From Dracula by Bram Stoker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Is Dracula Really Dead? | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

Meanwhile, back at the castle, werewolves and vampires had taken over. In 1897, a London theatrical manager named Bram Stoker published a book called Dracula. It became the most popular story of the supernatural ever written. Uninformed about vampires, Stoker baldly invented his own lore of the undead-how a vampire changes at will into a wolf or a bat, cringes in terror at the sight of a Christian cross, and lives forever unless a wooden stake is driven through its heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Sleep of Reason | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

Seventy-eight years have passed since Bram Stoker dredged him from the velvet underground of Victorian sexual repression. The authentic apocalypse of war, the real specter of deprivation, should have exorcised this titled vampire long ago. Instead, Count Dracula has become the Western world's most durable ghoul. There are Dracula dolls, songs, comic books and histories-proving the existence of a 15th century tyrant dubbed Dracul (dragon). Vampire movies have been made almost since the dawn of cinema and, according to Editor Leonard Wolf, there are now more than 200 Draculoid film titles, ranging from the silent Nosferatu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nosferatu | 8/18/1975 | See Source »

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